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CYTOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS OF EARLY UTERINE CARCINOMA
The Council were concerned to extend the service for cervical screening inconjunction
with ante-natal and child welfare centres within the borough. The Consultant
Pathologist at St. Stephen's Hospital agreed to provide the necessary diagnostic investigation
in the pathological laboratory at the hospital for a limited numberof patients resident in the
south of the borough, and the Health Committee accordingly decided in September, 1965, to
set up clinics in alternate weeks at Campden Hill and South Kensington Welfare Centres
for the collection of cervical smears.
Approval for the setting up of this service was granted by the Minister of Health
under Section 28 of the National Health Service Act, 1946, on 25th November, 1965, and
arrangements were made for the clinics to open early in 1966.
FAMILY PLANNING
Advice on family planning is given to married women attending the Council's
Welfare Centres for whom further pregnancy would be detrimental to health.
Women eligible for advice are referred to clinics of two branches of the Family
Planning Association in this area.
(a) The North Kensington Marriage Welfare Centre at Telford Road, W. 10.
Sub-centre at Campden Hill Welfare Centre, Holland Street, W.8.
(b) Putney and Roehampton Branch at St. Stephen's Hospital, Fulham Road,
S.W.10.
Number of women referred to Family
Planning Association Clinics 48
RECUPERATIVE HOLIDAYS
Recuperative holidays are provided where there is a need for rest, fresh air and
good food but where medical and nursing attention are not required.
Provision for expectant and nursing mothers and children under the age of five
and for other adults is made under the National Health Service Act, 1946, and is authorised
only for those cases where the applicant has been recently treated for some definite medical
condition. In most cases, the type of holiday accommodation provided is the private boarding
house or the small private hotel.
Recuperative holidays for children attending maintained or aided schools are
provided under the Education Act, 1944, where it is considered on medical grounds that
such a holiday is necessary to restore a child to full health.